Valvedre (Suny Series, Women Writers in Translation)
Contributors: Francoise Massardier-Kenney (Translator)
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: March 8, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9780791470596
Subjects: 19th century fiction; Classics; Fiction; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literature: Classics
Description: "George Sand's Valvedre questions traditional Romantic representations of women and exposes the disastrous consequences such notions of femininity have for both male and female characters at a time when divorce was illegal. This first English translation by Francoise Massardier-Kennery shows Sand's control of style and her understanding of the major tensions of early modern France: the role of women in society, the nature of motherhood, the relations between science and art, and the nature of prejudice."--Jacket.